About 90 percent reporting about Trump’s administration has been negative or untrue.

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A Capital Gazette newspaper rack displays the day’s front page, Friday, June 29, 2018, in Annapolis, Md. A man armed with smoke grenades and a shotgun attacked journalists in the newspaper’s building Thursday, killing several people before police quickly stormed the building and arrested him, police and witnesses said. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Blaming Trump for shooting
at newspaper is a stretch

The East Bay Times’ editorial on Sunday (July 1) seems to be the liberal left stretching to hyperbole the shooting at Capital Gazette in Annapolis in order to place indirect blame on President Trump.

There was no mention of the already known facts behind the shooter’s motive except for one short sentence about his grudge against the newspaper. The rest of the editorial is full of rationalizations and feeble attempts at flawed cause-and-effect analyses, and the result is a fake conclusion directing blame at the wrong person.

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If the editorial had stuck to facts as it states, “To us, facts matter, deeply,” then the total narrative of the editorial would fall apart due to internal inconsistency.

About 90 percent reporting about Trump’s administration has been negative or untrue. This is the context in which the president labels such reporting by those media outlets and journalists as fake news and the enemy of American people.

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